President Muhammadu Buhari aalongside King Mohammed VI of Morocco
Morocco and Nigeria have agreed a cooperation plan to press on with a proposed pipeline transporting gasoline to the North African kingdom alongside the Atlantic coast.
King Mohammed VI and President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday oversaw the signing of the accord in Rabat detailing the best way ahead for the mega-project first agreed in 2016, Morocco’s MAP information company reported.
The two international locations want to construct an extension to Morocco of a pipeline that has been pumping gasoline from resource-rich southern Nigeria to Benin, Togo and Ghana since 2010.
“For economic, political, legal and security reasons, the choice was made for a combined onshore/offshore route,” a assertion mentioned.
The proposed pipeline, to be in-built a number of phases, “will measure some 5,660 kilomtres (3,500 miles)” and “respond to the growing needs of the transit countries and Europe over the next 25 years”, the assertion added.
As said by report, the subsequent step shall be to sound out international locations across the area and prospects in Europe and to speak to worldwide lenders about funding the challenge.